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Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown said that the views were shared as much by the young mums ...

Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... on year they were still up by 17.5%. Very high annual percentage Inflow increases were reported by some wholesale fund managers most notably National Australia Bank / MLC (132.7%), Franklin Templeton (130.7%), Perpetual (35.2%) and State Street (30.2 ...

FSC leads Asia Funds Passport delegation to Korea

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Financial Services Council is today leading a delegation of fund managers to South Korea to discuss the Asian Region Funds Passport (ARFP) and the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA) with Korean CEOs and officials. Parliamentary Secretary ...

Dancing with digital: MAX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... research that half of the so-called 'digital affluent' go to YouTube for educational videos (a no-go zone for many fund managers). That said, Scopelliti noted that nine million or nearly half of the population are either Gen X and Gen Y: his talk gets ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... As anyone with investments in fixed income will know, rising rates mean falling prices for bonds. This is because fund managers looking to sell their existing bonds will need to discount them to make them more attractive to an investor than new paper ...

BT to manage $1.2 billion for People's Choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... People's Choice Credit Union. The credit union was previously working with multiple platform providers and individual fund managers and made the decision to look for a single provider when it surpassed $1 billion in funds under advice. People's Choice ...

New infrastructure fund for SMSFs launches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... Coffey, the Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund (IPIF) is a pooled vehicle investing in unlisted infrastructure fund managers. Former Russell Investments and Telstra Super executive Nicole Connolly is also on board, as is former Industry Superannuation ...

UK star manager announces launch date for new fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Neil Woodford, one of the UK's best known fund managers, has announced a 2 June launch date for the first fund under his new independent banner, Woodford Investment Management. Woodford left his role as head of equity at Invesco Perpetual in April where ...

First transaction takes place on ASX mFund service

MARK SMITH, ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... allows investors to use an ASX broker to buy and sell units in unlisted managed funds.A The service aims to broaden fund managers' distribution networks, offer brokers a greater choice of products, reduce costs for the industry and make processes more ...

BNP Paribas appoints custody product head

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Baker, head of Australia and New Zealand at BNP Paribas Securities Services, said: "Australian asset owners and fund managers are today facing more challenges than ever before; be it increased regulation - here and overseas - and the need to provide ...